Kevin Purpura 39

Kevin Purpura's work-related death could have been prevented. That’s how I see OSHA's findings in the agency’s recent citations against Woda Construction and Sandow Development (here and here.) The 39 year-old was working in January 2016 at a loft-style apartment redevelopment project in Wheeling, WV. The initial press reports indicated that Purpura was: "inspecting metal studding surrounding an elevator shaft” when he fell several stories to his death. I wrote about the incident shortly after it occurred. The (Wheeling, WV) Intelligencer reported that the project developer was the Woda Group…